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This part automates the Google Cloud side of Play’s Real-Time Developer Notifications (RTDN) — the mechanism that tells your WordPress site when a subscription renews, expires, or gets cancelled. You won’t need to click through Google Cloud by hand; the plugin handles it with a one-time automation key you provide.

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Prerequisites

  • A Google Cloud project linked to the same Google account as your Play Console developer account. Any project you control works.
  • A one-time automation service account key (JSON) for that project. You’ll create it below, upload it once to run the provisioning steps, and then delete your local copy — the plugin doesn’t store it.

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Step 1 — Create the automation service account key

  1. Go to console.cloud.google.com signed in as the Google account that manages your Play Console developer account.
  2. In the top-left project dropdown, create a new project or select an existing one.
  3. Open the left navigation menu → IAM & Admin → Service Accounts.
  4. Click + Create Service Account.
  5. Name it something recognizable (e.g. blockli-automation) → Create and Continue.
  6. Under “Grant this service account access to project,” add exactly three roles:
    • Service Usage Admin
    • Service Account Admin
    • Pub/Sub Admin
  7. Click Continue, then Done.
  8. On the Service Accounts list, click the account you just created.
  9. Go to its Keys tab → Add Key → Create new key → JSON → Create. The key file downloads automatically.
Treat this file like a password. You only need it once for provisioning — delete your local copy after uploading it in the next step.

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Step 2 — Run the provisioning wizard in WordPress

  1. In WordPress admin, go to Blockli Mobile App → In-App Purchases → Store Credentials → Google Play tab.
  2. Scroll to Automate Google Cloud setup.
  3. Upload the automation service account key JSON you just downloaded.
  4. Fill in three IDs:
    • Project ID — your GCP project ID (e.g. blockli-mobile)
    • Push service account ID — a short ID for a new service account the plugin will create (e.g. blockli-play-rtdn-push)
    • Topic ID — a short ID for the Pub/Sub topic (e.g. mobile-1-rtdn)
  5. Click Provision Google Cloud.
The plugin runs 8 steps automatically: enables APIs, creates the Pub/Sub topic, creates a push service account, grants it the roles it needs, grants Google’s Play publisher permission to publish to the topic, creates a push subscription pointing at your site’s notification endpoint, verifies each step, and confirms the subscription is live. On success, the Pub/Sub topic name (projects/<project>/topics/<topic-id>) is saved as a read-only field on this page. You’ll need it in the next step. This one step can’t be automated — it’s a one-time manual action in Play Console.
  1. Play Console → your app → Monetize → Monetization setup.
  2. Under Real-time developer notifications, paste the topic name saved in the previous step.
  3. Save, then click Send test notification.
  4. Confirm the notification appears under Blockli Mobile App → In-App Purchases → Notification Events in WordPress.
Once the test notification is confirmed, go back to the top of the Google Play tab and click Save Store Credentials to lock in the configuration.
Continue to Part 2: Products & Plugin Setup to create your products in Play Console and wire everything up in the plugin.